Since Feb.2019, we are cooperating with the Landell Mills Ltd from the United Kingdom for implementing an ADB funded project on “TrTA 9607-MON: Vegetable Production and Irrigated Agriculture (51423-001)”, Feb-Aug.2019, which provides technical support to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry (MoFALI) of Mongolia for developing a new project for the ADB.
Project Overview: In order to help Mongolia reap the full benefits of the vegetable sub-sector the proposed Project (Mongolia Irrigated Agriculture and Vegetable Project) will help increase the production and marketing of vegetable products (tentative Project outcome), which will result in an increase in income and employment opportunities for rural households (tentative Project impact). This will be achieved through value chain interventions supported by the Project which will help overcome a number of constraints. While the selection and design of such interventions will be decided during the assignment, we envisage that these could be concentrated under two Project outputs: (i) vegetable production improved; and (ii) vegetable value chains infrastructure improved.
The Project has an estimated cost of $42.4 million, including an ADB loan of $40 million, a $2 million grant, and $0.4 million government contribution. The MOFALI will be the Executing Agency (EA). The Project will follow the project modality, rather than the sector modality. i.e. the Project will support specific identified investments, rather than based on considerations relating to the sector as a whole with investment in a large number of unidentified sub-projects.